Pyeongtaek

Pyeongtaek is a metropolis in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Located inside the southwestern a part of the province, Pyeongtaek become based as a union of two districts in 940, all through the Goryeo dynasty. It turned into accelerated to town popularity in 1986 and is home to a South Korean naval base and a massive concentration of United States troops. The South Korean authorities plans to transform Pyeongtaek metropolis to an worldwide economic hub to coincide with the pass of the US Forces Korea to Pyeongtaek. During the Korean War it turned into the web site of an early war among U.S. And North Korean forces, the Battle of Pyongtaek.

It is the place of Pyeongtaek University. The United States and South Korean governments came to an settlement to expand Camp Humphreys a U.S. Army installation out of doors Anjeong-ri, a community in Pyeongtaek and circulate the general public of US forces stationed in and north of Seoul to the Camp Humphreys place. Invoking eminent domain, the government received the encircling land for the base growth. This would result in the network's 1/3 displacement from their personal land since the Japanese career at some point of World War II.